I don't like Psycho-thrillers

[GuyFawkes38]

I saw The Dark Knight a couple nights ago. And it bothered me.

What happened to the thoughtless, simple, aesthetically beautiful action movies of the past? Tim Burton's Batman movies fall into that category. He created an entire new world that stirs the imagination of the viewer.

In contrast, The Dark Knight takes place in downtown Chicago.

While Tim Burton's Batman movies create moods and ambiance, the Dark Knight lectures the viewer on psychology and tries to make him or her think about the relationship between power and morality (yawn).

To make matters worse, the Dark Knight was previewed by a James Bond trailer. The new Bond is a pitiful, politically correct, "action hero". He's sensitive, questioning, and boring. I miss the old, womanizing, patriotic, and thoughtless Bond.

The action movie is dead.

[Raoul Duke]

I saw The Dark Knight a couple nights ago. And it bothered me.

What happened to the thoughtless, simple, aesthetically beautiful action movies of the past? Tim Burton's Batman movies fall into that category. He created an entire new world that stirs the imagination of the viewer.

In contrast, The Dark Knight takes place in downtown Chicago.

While Tim Burton's Batman movies create moods and ambiance, the Dark Knight lectures the viewer on psychology and tries to make him or her think about the relationship between power and morality (yawn).

To make matters worse, the Dark Knight was previewed by a James Bond trailer. The new Bond is a pitiful, politically correct, "action hero". He's sensitive, questioning, and boring. I miss the old, womanizing, patriotic, and thoughtless Bond.

The action movie is dead.

Did you see the last James Bond movie? You've got it backwards, man.

[GuyFawkes38]

Did you see the last James Bond movie? You've got it backwards, man.

I saw Casino Royale. Like so many other films made today (including batman), it tried to psychoanalyze its characters and make Bond into a 3 dimensional character. I don't like it.

[Juice]

Did anyone see the trailer for Terminator 4 before the Dark Knight? That is the movie I am most excited to see.

Yeah, I know T3 sucked, but T4 looks to bring the series back to respectability and more in line with T2.

[nuts4xu]

Did anyone see the trailer for Terminator 4 before the Dark Knight? That is the movie I am most excited to see.

Yeah, I know T3 sucked, but T4 looks to bring the series back to respectability and more in line with T2.

Is the governor in T4?

[Juice]

No he is not, Christian Bale is John Connors, and I believe it centers around the war that Sarah and the Governor were trying to keep John alive for in T2.

[Raoul Duke]

Sadly, I missed the previews before Dark Knight. I didn't even know a T4 was in the works. I actually liked T3 too.


I saw Casino Royale. Like so many other films made today (including batman), it tried to psychoanalyze its characters and make Bond into a 3 dimensional character. I don't like it.

Wait a minute. Now you're saying something different. At first you said he's PC, sensitive, questioning, and boring. Which is it?

[GuyFawkes38]

Wait a minute. Now you're saying something different. At first you said he's PC, sensitive, questioning, and boring. Which is it?


I think it's very PC to have a film psychoanalyze their subjects. Can't the Joker just be evil? That's more fun than to hear him talk about how angry his father was and what his new ambitions are.

And can't James Bond be a patriotic, womanizing, and fun action hero nope? Nope. Casino Royale gives us an explanation of why James Bond turned into James Bond. And that takes out a lot of fun in the character.